Border Patrol seizes 14 tons of pot in California

SALTON CITY, Calif. 
The Border Patrol says agents have found more than 14 tons of marijuana inside a truck at a remote Southern California checkpoint.

The agency said Friday that it arrested a 35-year-old truck driver who was stopped at the checkpoint on state Highway 86 near Salton City, about 60 miles north of the Mexican border.

The Border Patrol says dogs alerted agents to the truck Wednesday night. The marijuana was found inside wooden crates, packaged in more than 1,100 bundles.

The agency says it is one of the largest drug hauls ever at one of its highway checkpoints. It is also the largest marijuana seizure in the Border Patrol's El Centro sector, which sits across the Mexican border city of Mexicali, a region under the grip of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.